Using Inkscape as an XML editor
This book is all about design projects and creating vector graphics in Inkscape, but sometimes you can do a bit more and use the SVG format to your advantage! SVG is an open standard format, which means you can look into it and, with a bit of work, understand it.
It uses the XML format to describe vector graphics, so you can modify SVG files even with a simple text editor. Don’t be alarmed; the goal is not to build SVG graphics from scratch via XML! That would be counterproductive; that is still the job of Inkscape.
In this part of the chapter, I simply want to share a few tricks where the XML editing capabilities of Inkscape can be at your service.
Searching for, selecting, and changing multiple elements at once
Imagine working with a file with hundreds of different objects and shapes, such as small leaves on a tree illustration or multiple buttons and icons in a complex UI design. And then, you need to change the color of every other...
